Corswain's iron boot crushed the remains of a Possessed Marine. Through his exquisitely precise gyroscopes, he detected the faintest tremor. Even after being beheaded with a single stroke, the monster had not truly died.
The Chaos daemon dwelling within the armor was not so easily slain. Screaming as it attempted to regenerate, a mangled, misshapen head pushed out from the bloody wound. A demonic face howled wildly, trying to ambush the Lion's seneschal.
Another slash flashed past. Aco's sword moved too quickly for the naked eye to follow, severing the newly grown mutated head from the Possessed Marine once more.
The damage inflicted by the disintegration field swiftly pulverized the head completely.
"I can kill you once, and I can kill you a second time."
His brow furrowed beneath his helmet. Though Possessed Marines were not unbeatable foes to him, they were undoubtedly formidable and troublesome enemies for other Astartes.
Another Dark Angel armed with heavy weaponry immediately rushed to his side and reduced the foul thing to ashes with the flames of a promethium flamer.
Melee weapons and flame were particularly effective against Warp daemons. Their ranged weapons could often only knock enemies down rather than kill them completely; follow-up strikes were needed to banish those daemons for good.
The interior of the Blackstone Fortress was immensely vast, which also meant there were not enough solid pieces of cover for either side to hide behind.
But the Imperial Astartes were different. To them, the larger war-pattern Iron Men were the best cover. Most of the enemy's corrosive ranged fire was blocked by the Iron Men, while the high-energy beams they unleashed blasted apart the enemies charging at the forefront.
Warp daemons possessed strong resistance to ranged attacks, but that did not mean they emerged unscathed. If enough attacks were